Thanks Steven,
for the correction and the link.. I went for a run after posting and got to thinking, I screwed that up.. but great link.. I thought he died in Mexico in obscurity.. I havent' read through your link.
As for Miller and Abbey, they both explored issues similar but from different sides of the fence.. Miller from the Urban side.. Abbey from the natural or rural side..
Our society has or (had) a love, hate, fear relationship with our sexuality that MIller explored and wrote about.. and we also had a
love, hate, fear relationship with our environment that Abbey explored and wrote about.. At the same time they took pot shots at contemporary society views on these issues and others.. I like them
for that.. They pushed the envelope.. OF THOUGHT. And I assume they lived what they wrote..
So instead of sitting around grunting in a cave complaining about
the cold, one or both of those guys got up and went outside to view the lightening storm and tried to catch it in a ,Not a bottle, but in something to bring back in and warm themselves, AT THE RISK of being
struck by the lightening...
Back to writing, I've tried my damndest, to get into Michner, I can't. He is a smart and wonderful man, but IMO, nobody can write about something they haven't lived... The one I liked was the hippies travelling through Europe in a microbus..
I am probably so ignorant about writing skills, that I can not recognize the good from bad..
BTW, Of contemporary writers, I like Kurt Vonnegut and Gay Talese.
Thank you for your response... Coug
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